We started the week off with a school wide open mic. Our students shared their talents and enjoyed watching others perform during this extended morning assembly last Monday. What a talented group of students we have!
In Readers and Writers workshops we have been finishing our storytelling unit up by working towards a final product. We took a class rewind this week to really examine what story elements we have been learning about by examining our mentor texts and how we can apply those elements in our own writing. A lot of hard work and reflection about who we are as learners went on this week as we examined how we could improve our writing to make it the best it can be!
We celebrated the 100th day of school of Wednesday this week and it was exciting! There were 100 day activities, multiplication Bingo, 100 snack mix and more! Our students were able to consider 100 in many ways from multiple angles. The most favorite activity seemed to be the 100 paper links chain, made from 100 strips of colored paper. The students worked as a group, counted out the links and assembled it and then we used their bodies to measure how long the final product was. This led to an engaging discussion of how units of measurement came to be and what the reasoning is behind having standardized units of measurement today.
Last but not least we continued our multiplication work this week. We continued our math minutes daily in addition to group work and thinking about how to work through a multiplication problem when it is not one you have memorized yet. Our students were able to discuss and show all the strategies that work for them and some combine more than one strategy to find the answer. Students modeling their thinking for one another and working in small groups and pairs has been beneficial to everyone in the room! We love to see the discourse around how to solve a problem and the students coming into their own as mathematicians!